Triple

T19647841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Truth Be Told E471727 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Nichelle Tramble Spellman
Nichelle Tramble Spellman is an American television writer and producer known for her work on character-driven dramas and for creating the crime drama series "Truth Be Told."
E1388806 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Nichelle Tramble Spellman | Statement: [Truth Be Told, creator, Nichelle Tramble Spellman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nichelle Tramble Spellman
Context triple: [Truth Be Told, creator, Nichelle Tramble Spellman]
  • A. Carol Denise McNair
    Carol Denise McNair was one of the four African-American girls tragically killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • B. Mechelle McNair
    Mechelle McNair is the widow of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and the mother of his children, known publicly largely through her marriage to the late football star.
  • C. Clair Engle
    Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • D. Priscilla Buxton
    Priscilla Buxton was a 19th-century British social reformer and abolitionist known for her work on prison reform and the campaign against slavery.
  • E. Keisha Nash Whitaker
    Keisha Nash Whitaker is an American actress, producer, and former model best known for her work in film and television and for her long-term marriage to actor Forest Whitaker.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Nichelle Tramble Spellman
Triple: [Truth Be Told, creator, Nichelle Tramble Spellman]
Generated description
Nichelle Tramble Spellman is an American television writer and producer known for her work on character-driven dramas and for creating the crime drama series "Truth Be Told."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nichelle Tramble Spellman
Target entity description: Nichelle Tramble Spellman is an American television writer and producer known for her work on character-driven dramas and for creating the crime drama series "Truth Be Told."
  • A. Carol Denise McNair
    Carol Denise McNair was one of the four African-American girls tragically killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • B. Mechelle McNair
    Mechelle McNair is the widow of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and the mother of his children, known publicly largely through her marriage to the late football star.
  • C. Clair Engle
    Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • D. Priscilla Buxton
    Priscilla Buxton was a 19th-century British social reformer and abolitionist known for her work on prison reform and the campaign against slavery.
  • E. Keisha Nash Whitaker
    Keisha Nash Whitaker is an American actress, producer, and former model best known for her work in film and television and for her long-term marriage to actor Forest Whitaker.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8e51395348190ac1416d46dfc6db0 completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64126cea88190a1a6929f46de4686 completed April 20, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a077eeced6881909429563193fd71d1 completed May 15, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0783867f148190aaca0d1522689e3c completed May 15, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0784a7dba88190857275f577b5cc7c completed May 15, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.